Teaching code

4S007333

Teacher

Gianluca Solla

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/03 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 23, 2019 al Oct 31, 2019.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

The interrogation on critical ethics concerns those questions that emerge around the human behavior. The issues are discussed taking into account the historical context, but with prevailing theoretical commitment. Knowledge and various skills (historical, political, legal, theological) are part of this discipline as proper setting for further interdisciplinary developments.

By the end of the course the students should have developed autonomy of reflection and critical judgment in order to elaborate reflections on ethics topics, philosophical language skills, and understanding of the texts, but also to be able to applicate the concept so developed to the problems of the contemporaneity.

Program

Crisis, Clinic, Criticism

By referring to the three fundamental concepts of the title, the course intends to develop a reflection on the possibility of a "Clinic of the crisis" that comes out from the impasses of usual political criticism, referring to contemporary issues (non-reception of migration, racism, ecological crisis ).

Bibliography:
1. Michel Foucault, Introduzione alla vita non-fascista (on web: http://www.dtesis.univr.it/documenti/OccorrenzaIns/matdid/matdid574214.pdf)
2. Walter Benjamin, Sul concetto di storia, Einaudi 1997 (only pp. 20-57).
3. Frantz Fanon, Pelle nera, maschere bianche, ETS, 2015.
4. Ivan Illich, La convivialità, Red, 2013.
Non-attending students can also read: Lessico della crisi e del possibile, a cura di Fabrice Dubosc, SEB27, 2019.


SYLLABUS
Students attending the classes will receive frontal lessons and participate to a seminary activity that involves the participation of students, which will address the texts in the form of a comment, an elaboration, an extension and a discussion of their content. The individual study of the texts will be also an important part of the preparation of the final exam. Meeting hours for students are scheduled during the whole academic year. Days and hours of the courses and of the meetings will be communicated in the teacher’s personal webpage.
For students who will attend classes as well as for students not attending the classes, the contents of the textbooks, as well as the lessons and exercises held in the classroom, are part of the program. Any additional teaching materials will be reported by the end of the course and, where possible, made available on the online teaching platform.
Students don't attending the course contact please the teacher to discuss during consultation hours about doubts and questions concerning their preparation for the exam.

Examination Methods

In order to pass the exam, students will show that:
- they possess a deep knowledge of the main specific issues developed during the course;
- they possess also the capacity to make an independent reflection on ethical implications of such issues, using a pertinent and appropriate language.

The competence of all students, either those who attended the course or those who didn’t, will be valued through an oral examination about the specific topics and questions discussed during the classes. The final score will be expressed in /30s.